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But like, what is it? Odd that this reached #1 on HN. The README is pretty bare outside of installation instructions and a link to "Cordis", which is "A Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability." and "under active development. The API is not yet stable and may change without notice.".
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The landing page provides more context than GitHub: https://deepseek.com/harness/en/ The documentation, built from repo, is available here: https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/guide... (I find the development and reference sections easier to read and navigate)
I think the github readme repo is more for people who heard about it, but you're absolutely right, it is lacking in context and explanation.
To install the harness, first use npm...
And tab is closed. No thanks.
«It uses an architecture where everything is a plugin» Ok, that's enough for me. I have developped over the year a plugin fatigue. Every product relying on "community plugins" for their features implies it works fine the 6 first months, then it's a nightmare of incompatible, deprecated, incompatible plugins, with no consistency and no governance. I understand how attractive it can be to companies to think, hey, let's…
Sounds like a Linux architecture, innit?
Is there a reason why so many of these agent harness are written in node.js?
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JVM has real and virtual threads and arguably just as good if not better on all these points. (I actually have/am writing a harness in Java fwiw, but mostly as a hobby/experimentation)
JVM apparently has the disadvantage that nobody under the age of 40 wants to touch it anymore. I admit I haven't worked in it in 20 years, but I do think it's a marvel of engineering and unfairly maligned. It used to be my career but I wanted to be closer to the metal. Having Oracle's tramp-stamp on it may have been the final kiss of death in terms of totally-superficial "coolness" factor.
The Cordis plugin architecture is interesting https://github.com/cordiverse/paper
Using memory to track inverses does not scale.